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Savage Wolverine is consistently good and like a thousand times better than the main Cornell book. The current noir-ish arc isn't quite doing it for me yet, but the last few with Joe Mad, Jock and the one where Wolvie is hunting down poachers are all awesome.
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I kind of feel UXM improves a lot every time Bachalo isn't on it.
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Mar 6, 2014 17:49
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I didn't think it was a great issue, but it's got promise. It's really cool to see actual character development in Quentin Quire of all people.
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Mar 8, 2014 17:31
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I like Yost, but am sad to see Aaron on fewer books. What's going on with him? I know he's working on that Watcher event, but does he really have nothing else other than Thor on the pile? Is he doing any creator-owned books at all?
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Mar 10, 2014 22:23
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Spiderdrake posted:I have some horrible feeling they'd recently done a resurrect Jean event like, centered on Pryor or something horrible like that? I feel like it was right around Necrosha? It's either I'm repressing a storyline or I'm having difficulty discerning my nightmares and flashbacks to Greg Land art, though. Both feel about the same. Phoenix: Endsong is the last story to use the original Jean Grey, I believe, and it was penned by Land. The Pryor story you're thinking of was probably during Fraction's run on Uncanny, which was also under the foul scrawl of Land.
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Mar 23, 2014 13:56
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Claremont really thought Psylocke was pretty special. I've been reading his early issues and every time she appears it's like "an Asian... with a British accent!!???"
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Apr 1, 2014 12:04
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Saoshyant posted:I think most people would agree Marvel went down the shitter when Disney bought them. Everything turned into a platform to launch movies instead of letting the movies happen naturally. There's no room for new risky things, because everything needs to be safe with some way of turning it into yet another profitable PC movie. That's some revisionist loving history, dude.
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Apr 14, 2014 20:24
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Saoshyant posted:How come? Because it operates under the presumption that it wasn't like that before.
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Apr 14, 2014 20:37
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Fritzler posted:I want to like X-Force. I thought Fantomex's bad french would be a tipoff. But the Fantomex said "le infiltration" and Betsy corrected him to "la infiltration." Is that supposed to mean his French is bullshit? I ask because it should really be "l'infiltration". I'm just a little confused, and Fantomex's accent is the one thing really putting me off of the book. Everything Fantomex does is put on. He's not a real person.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:12
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irlZaphod posted:I'm still not sure if I'm reading X-Factor just because Doug and Warlock are in it, or if I'm actually enjoying reading it. I think it's improving - the latest issue was probably the best - but it still doesn't seem like it's going anywhere and I really don't like the art. I'll stick with it for now, Peter David tends to play the long game with his books.
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Apr 18, 2014 11:39
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I'd replace Gillen's Uncanny with Aaron's WatX. Gillen writes a good Namor, but I thought that run was entirely forgettable aside from that one Dr. Manhattan post-AvX issue. Plus, it has Land on art. Hell, I'd put ANXM on the list before that one. Spiderdrake posted:I was enjoying it before that and then Doug showed up acknowledging the earlier run he was in and I wanted to high five Peter David. I feel like there have been so many good recent X-books that aren't the up front big deal books that whenever people say 'hey I read that' it makes me really happy. Thinking about it, it's more the colourization I don't like. I'm so loving sick of that goddamn orange. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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Apr 18, 2014 14:16
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Suben posted:The problem with Storm is that she's just a pile of "Strong" characteristics and not much more than that. She's a virtual goddess, a queen, a former street urchin (but this makes her crafty), she's powerful, a good hand-to-hand fighter, a leader, etc. The problem, of course, is that on the surface that makes for a cool character but in practice it's actually detrimental because there's nothing there for the reader to get hooked into as a driving motivation. Maybe Pak can change that though, who knows? I've said this before, but Storm should ideally be treated as a female Thor. He doesn't really have any obvious flaws either, at least in the more modern comics, but a lot of his character is influenced by his supporting cast. I think the problem with Storm is that no one really relates to her at all; she's just this weird, otherworldly goddess that everyone looks up to because she's austere and powerful, but her actual relationships are very rarely explored.
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Apr 29, 2014 20:00
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I've liked Adjectiveless, probably more than Uncanny, but I think I'm the only one.
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May 10, 2014 00:35
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Starting to think Bendis needs his own complaint thread 'cause drat
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May 16, 2014 00:10
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Unmature posted:While I always loved the X-Men movies and TV shows, I never got big into the comics. I'd read a few here and there like some of Whedon's run and stuff, but it's a big blindspot for me. So this summer I'm gonna read through all of Claremont's run. That's 16 years of comics. Is this the worst idea ever? No, I'm actually planning on doing the same. It's honestly not as big a task as it sounds; those issues read pretty quickly for the most part. Half the dialogue of that era is recapping what happened in the last issue and what the powers of each character is, so there's a lot of non-essential text.
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Jun 11, 2014 21:14
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Unmature posted:Just read the first three volumes of All New X-Men and absolutely love it. Is this the one you guys all hate? Uncanny is the boring, sloppily written one. I still enjoy ANXM.
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Jun 21, 2014 01:34
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I know I'm generalizing, and I can't really blame people for being dismayed with Bendis, but sometimes I get the feeling that the only thing that could please some of you guys is if every comic reverted back to being perpetually stuck in the silver age.
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Jun 22, 2014 21:58
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Diet Poison posted:Being able to read BotA at your own pace probably does make it more enjoyable. At very least, it removes the "gawwwwd, this is taking all summer!" element. I know people in the Transformers thread often complained about the Dark Cybertron crossover which lasted the better part of the year; I held off and read it all at once and didn't hate it. I read the monthly issues and I liked most of it, too. But I did ultimately think it was pretty disposable; I couldn't tell you what happened if you put a gun to my head.
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Jun 27, 2014 11:04
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Inhumans have awoken within the general population, so they might as well be interchangeable from mutants at this point. Generally the rule of thumb is that Inhumans have more abstract powers and are typically more "inhuman" than mutants, though obviously there are exceptions.
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Sep 15, 2014 07:56
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It could be read that way, but the thing is, the whole power issue is handwaved by most writers. The fact that many mutants have the capability to level a city is tertiary to the fact that they're persecuted by everyone, and I haven't really seen many stories that try to tackle that aspect of X-Men. Even Morrison sidestepped it by making powers seem like just weird, arbitrary poo poo that happens to you as you grow older as opposed to tools that are often specifically designed for combat or manipulation of humans.
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Oct 13, 2014 22:07
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Spiderdrake posted:I prefer to imagine him as a K9999 homage because he got stuffed into a drawer and quietly forgotten about pretty quick. Deep cut man 
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Dec 26, 2014 09:32
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I'm pretty sure he's said he's only going to be doing creator-owned stuff after finishing Avengers.
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Dec 26, 2014 18:05
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UniqueLikeMonique posted:Hey I just thought I'd share it since it was relevant to the fandom. Plainly stated, it's not very funny.
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Jan 19, 2015 00:38
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UniqueLikeMonique posted:Is it because I didn't use the most original super powers? Gotta give me credit for not using Wolverine and his rapid recovery time at least The theme is not the problem.
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Jan 19, 2015 01:07
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I haven't hated all of Bendis' X-Men run. All-New was consistently pretty good, I think. At the very least it was better than his latter-day Avengers run. But yeah it's been time for a new writer for a long-rear end time. He really wasted all the potential with Scott that Gillen set up in those last few issues of his run. UXM was generally pretty loving bad, though I do think Bachalo takes some of the blame for that too.
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Feb 4, 2015 21:42
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Aphrodite posted:I wonder if there's an in universe reason for an all female team. "All the men are either dead, part of the illuminati, or crazy/turned evil, screw 'em"
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I haven't read the newer issues, but I thought the whole Dazzler thing was "Mystique tortured me and that sucked, but now I'm back to being Dazzler again"? I'm sure I remember her showing up in her old disco outfit.
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